A still image attracts the viewer with an overall impact, then reveals smaller details upon further study.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The still image continues to have a ton of strength. An image taken out of context from one fraction of a second to the next can tell a story, and if photographers are looking to tell a certain story, they can curate those slices of time to their advantage.
What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look.
It's not worth getting too excited about thinking about the larger picture. The larger picture doesn't come into focus for an awfully long time.
Contrast is what makes photography interesting.
The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph.
Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended effect.
This thing called the camera, that takes everything in equally, taught me a lot about how to see.
When you're used to looking through a stills lens and you have to capture an emotional moment, and that picture is not moving and yet it has to have impact, I think that's the first influence on my style.
People see images now more than they see movies.
Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses.